also undergo background checks, pay taxes and a penalty, and learn english. want to bring in our senior latin american affairs editor to talk about the reaction, specifically when it comes to mexicans. >> a lot of people waiting for a long time on this talking about mexican americans, everybody has somebody in their family touched by immigration. i want to talk to you about some of the numbers regarding immigration. for example, during the obama years, immigration authorities have reached record levels of what they call removals, detentions and deportations of immigrants. take a look at year 2012, 409,849 detentions just to put it in perspective. similar to deporting each and everyone in cities like omaha, nebraska, oakland, california. let me also talk about somebody that a lot of people don't really know much about, and the reality is that according to the pew hispanic center the net migration from mexico to the united states has reached zero. between 200 aand 2010, 1.4 million immigrants arrived but 1.4 million or more left which again, talks about the fac